I just discovered that there is a folder named "chromium-browser" in /etc. I don't use Chromium, so is it safe to delete this folder? There is also one in the home folder, and I know that one can be safely deleted.

Last edited by Schultz on Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

In case you have not experienced any problems after, let us say, 2 weeks, chances are that it is safe to remove the (renamed) folder including content, because you do not use chromium.
Unanswered is the question: what the heck is to be gained by removing this small folder?

Regards,
Karl

Old bugs good, new bugs bad! Updates are evil: might fix old bugs and introduce no new ones.

It might be a losing battle, because if the package that installed that file is updated, it may install the file again. You might be better off removing the entire package than just 1 file, but that is easier said than done sometimes.

In the future, when you see a file that you want to know more about, ask the question, "what package installed that file", and from the command line do a dpkg -S pattern, where the pattern is part of the file name --- dpkg -S /etc/chromium-browser.

I did the above command and found that this directory was installed by adobe-flashplugin. Clicking on Installed Files in Synaptic Package Manager confirmed this, as well as,
doing the command, dpkg -L adobe-flashplugin | less.